Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Scott has made much of a secret of his intellectual and esthetic bents. His Senate office is dominated by chinoiserie, and his house on N Street in Georgetown is a treasure house of the Oriental art he started collecting more than 30 years ago. Bored with the long train ride from Chestnut Hill to his office in Philadelphia, Scott, then a lawyer, started teaching himself Japanese grammar. As often happens with students of that subtle tongue, Scott found that a taste for Japanese art quickly followed. "Mrs. Scott was slightly appalled at first at all the junk...
Another case led to a secret room, hollowed out of the hillside behind the garage of a $45,000 home in a Westchester County suburb, north of New York City. The items confiscated there included half a pail of capsules marked "SKF" (for Smith Kline & French, the makers of Dexedrine), a small barrel of counterfeit Seconals, paper bags containing yellow tablets imprinted "Ciba," bags of waterlogged, unidentified tablets, and a 110-lb. drum marked "Made in Italy" and containing a dubious white powder. Added together these items gave the FDA an unusually persuasive collection of evidence...
Secrecy. Disclosure of Spain's contract with null marked the end of 21 years of secret and almost byzantine negotiations. For as soon as Spanish geologists found the rich phosphate vein back in 1963, Generalissimo Franco's ministers forbade publication of any hint of the discovery. They had good reason for their reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure...
...fact, I think that the secret of the Liberation Front's strength and the reason for its survival lie in its ability to act according to the Vietnamese principles although it may seem paradoxical that a revolutionary Communist-oriented movement should behave...
...Secret Details. Negotiators reached an antidumping agreement to prevent international sales of goods below cost, but its details (like those on most specific tariff cuts) were temporarily kept secret. However disturbing-and confusing-that secrecy is to businessmen, the GATT delegates consider it essential to enable them to codify the Byzantine complexities of their agreements in time for governments to sign them by June 30, when President Johnson's authority to cut tariffs expires...